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THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX: A SECRET PASSAGE A SACRED STONE A FRIGHTENED GIRL.
Lorraine Whittaker, a young and beautiful girl, is called to strange, mystery-shrouded Alstare Manor to instruct a deaf-mute child. Here she encounters Mme. Alexandria Baronne and her menage of eccentric retired artists. The mansion, built in the Egyptian motif, abounds in passageways, priceless treasures and ghostly apparitions. Soon there is murder and a frightening series of attacks in the shadowy hallways. No-one is safe-least of all Lorraine. She has but one clue-one hope for her own survival from the dread phantom terrors haunting the manor. She must solve the ancient and ominous mystery of the sphinx.
Lorraine Whittaker, a young and beautiful girl, is called to strange, mystery-shrouded Alstare Manor to instruct a deaf-mute child. Here she encounters Mme. Alexandria Baronne and her menage of eccentric retired artists. The mansion, built in the Egyptian motif, abounds in passageways, priceless treasures and ghostly apparitions. Soon there is murder and a frightening series of attacks in the shadowy hallways. No-one is safe-least of all Lorraine. She has but one clue-one hope for her own survival from the dread phantom terrors haunting the manor. She must solve the ancient and ominous mystery of the sphinx.